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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



blackly punctate, oriticial areas broadly blackish ; abdomen beneath 

 finely mottled with pale brownish, spiracles and linear marginal spots 

 black ; legs finely mottled with brownish ; rostrum reaching the pos- 

 terior coxae, its apex black ; mesosternum centrally sulcate. Long. 

 ? 17 mm. Exp. pronot. angl, 11 millim. 



Hob. Bengal ; Kurseong. 



The comparatively short, apically tricarinate lateral angles 

 of the pronotiim will distinguish this species. I received it 

 through Dr. Montandon. 



Prionaca nigrescens, sp. n. 



Black, more or less mottled with ochraceous ; head punctate, 

 transversely wrinkled, with fine more or less distinct longitudinal 

 carinate lines, the most prominent at the middle of the central lobe, 

 the apex rounded, the lateral lobes very slightly longer than the 

 central lobe and cleft at their apices ; antennge black, first joint 

 not reaching apex of head, second longest, third and fourth subequal, 

 the latter ochraceous at base ; pronotum coarsely punctate and rugu- 

 lose with scattered ochraceous mottlings, a central ochraceous line 

 not reaching base, on each side of which is a levigate ochraceous 

 spot, lateral angles robust, somewhat strongly, laterally, and a little 

 upwardly produced, their apices shortly acute, their margins serrate, 

 lateral pronotal margins shortly obtusely dentate ; scutellum thickly 

 punctate, three levigate ochraceous spots at base, one at each basal 

 angle and the third central, the lateral and apical margins very nar- 

 rowly and obscurely dull ochraceous ; corium thickly punctate, a 

 somewhat large irregular impunctate ochraceous spot a little behind 

 middle of disk ; membrane pale bronzy brown ; connexivum pale 

 testaceous, spotted with black ; sternum black, greyishly tomentose, 

 finely punctate ; abdomen dull ochraceous, the spiracles and lateral 

 marginal spots black ; coxae and femora ochraceous, apical areas of 

 femora, and the whole of the tibiiB and tarsi, black ; rostrum just 

 reaching the posterior coxae, its apex black ; abdominal spine not 

 extending beyond the posterior coxiu ; sternum distinctly centrally 

 sulcate. Long. S' ^h ? 10^ millim. Exp. pronot. angl. ^ 7, 

 ? 8 millim. 



Hab. Bengal ; Kurseong. 



For the possession of this species I have to thank my friend 

 Dr. Montandon. 



Fam. BEEYTID^. 



Genus Taprobanus, nov. 



Body long and narrow ; posterior femora passing apex of abdo- 

 men ; hemelytra shorter than abdomen ; head longer than broad, 

 deflected and narrowed anteriorly, moderately globose ; ocelli at a 

 short distance from base, nearer lateral margins than to each other ; 

 eyes about midway between base and apex ; antennae witli the first 

 joint longest, a little shorter than the body, its apex sliglitly incras- 

 sated, second a little longer than third, fourth short and moderately 

 incrassated ; pronotum about one and a half times as long as head, 



